Nipun Gupta

Nipun Gupta is a Senior Core Systems Engineer at Genies since June 2025, bringing extensive experience in software development and engineering from previous roles at Riot Games and NortonLifeLock. At Riot Games, notable contributions included gameplay engineering for the PVE game Swarm, where pivotal features for game mechanics were designed and developed, and the implementation of a data-driven champion drafting system for the next-gen game launcher. Gupta also managed third-party SDKs for Wild Rift, enhancing gameplay performance and reducing technical debt. Prior to Riot Games, Gupta served as Product Owner and Principal Software Engineer at NortonLifeLock, leading a team to create a serverless microservice backend for Norton VPN products and innovating a unified layout for Norton Consumer products. Nipun Gupta holds a Master’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Southern California.